842017 - Remove broken support for displaying window.status / window.defaultStatus

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: patch

dom.disable_window_open_feature.status has been true in Firefox for ages and support for displaying status text is broken (bug 343847).

Comment 1

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

Shouldn't we then remove dom.disable_window_open_feature.status together with this? Or are you leaving it there for other applications like SeaMonkey?

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Other application may still want it, but this doesn't mean it needs to be supported forever. That's however a separate decision that can happen in a different bug.

Comment 3

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

Comment on attachment 714780 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Review of attachment 714780 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Ok. It'd be nice if this pref didn't show up in about:config in Firefox as it'll be unsupported. But I guess the effort for that is not really worth it, it's probably much better use of time on dropping support for it altogether, as this is generally a bad feature and which has been unused for a long time.

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/69cc1bc86785

Comment 5

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/69cc1bc86785

Comment 6

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Should have been documented (see bug 862540).

Comment 7

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Sorry, bug 872675.